Soda-fountain apparatus and syrup-drawing can therefor.



Patented Ian. 7, I902.'"

.1. c. JOHNSON. SODA FOUNTAIN APPARATUS AND SYRUP DRAWING CA N THEREFOR.

(Application filed Sept. 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN C. JOHNSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SODA-FOUNTAIN APPARATUS AND SYRUP-DRAWING CAN THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,436, dated January 7, 1902.

Application filed September 4, 1901. Serial No. 74,387. (No model.) I

city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soda-Fountain Apparatus and SyrupDrawing Oans Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the arrangement of a soda-fountain apparatus provided with syrup-drawing cans of the character which can be readily applied to saloon-bar fixtures and with facility removed therefrom as occasion may require; and in such connection it relates to the construction and arrangement of the said apparatus and its accessories. The bars of saloons are provided with fixtures having draw-off cocks for beverages which are connected with icechests'in the rear and by piping with the sources of supply of the different fluids or liquids remote therefrom.

It is the principal object of my present invention to so arrange a soda-fountain apparatus, with its accessories, as that by removing a panel or panels of a saloon-bar fixture the apparatus may be readily inserted, so as to fit fiush against the wall of the bar-fixture, With the drawing-cans mounted in a protected housingof the apparatus surrounded, or partially so, bya cooling agent or by ice in the ice-chest of the fixture and with the cans projecting beyond the face-plate of the apparatus, and provided in the top with an opening for filling and in the bottom with a draw-01f cook, the opening in the top being closed by a hinged or movable lid spanning a series of the cans arranged side by side, whereby one or more cans may be readily filled without disturbing others in the series by raising the lid forming a closure for the opening of each can or by withdrawing wholly or partially a can without disturbing others in the series, the bottom of the housing for the respective cans being formed with tracks or ways for supporting each of the cans in position and enabling one can to be removed from neighboring oans-that is, located side by side-without disturbing others of the series mounted in the housing.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a soda-fountain apparatus having a series of syrup-drawing cans when constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in WhlCh Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a soda-fountain apparatus with its syrup-drawing cansshown in operative position in application to asaloon-bar fixture for use. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the apparatus and a broken sectional view of the saloon-bar fixture to which the apparatus is fitted. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the apparatus in position and one of the cans thereof. Fig. 4: is a top or plan view, partly in broken section, showing in detail the con struction and arrangement of the apparatus with the same in position and with one of the cans partially withdrawn from its housing.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a saloon-bar fixture having projecting therefrom the ordinary draw-off cocks at and a.

B represents the soda-fountain apparatus of my presentinvention, shown in application to said fixture, as illustrated in Fig. 1, this apparatus consisting of a rectangular or other shaped housing I), provided with a front or face plate I), to which is hinged, at the upper portion thereof, lids 6 adapted to form closures for openings in the throat b of the housing, registering with correspondingopenings in cans 0, adapted to be inserted and withdrawn from the housing b. Each can O is of preferably oblong shape or contour and is provided with a flanged face 0' beyond an opening 0 in the top and having in the bottom in rear of the face a draw-off cock 0, adapted to engage in a recess b in the bottom of the throat b of the housing Z). The bottom of the housing I), in rear of the face-plate b, is made so as to form tracks or ways If, upon which ride the series of cans 0 when inserted in position in the housing b, as illustrated, for example, in Fig. 4, and so that when the series of cans arranged side by side have assumed a normal position, such as illustrated in Fig. 1, the interstices b in Fig. 4 between the series of tracks or ways 6 will permit the cooled air from the ice partially or wholly surrounding the top and sides of the housing b, mounted in the ice-chest of the saloon-bar fixture, to impart its influence to the walls of the respective cans to enable the syrups or other fluids contained in the cans to be kept cool.

e is the ordinary two-way draw-off cock of a soda-fountain provided in the housing between the series of cans with a piping extending to a tank containing soda-water or the like (not shown) when the apparatus is arranged as illustrated in Fig. 4:. When the series of cans are in their normally operative position, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the openings beneath thelids I) register with the openings in the tops of the cans, so that filling of the cans can be effected without disturbing others in the series, and in case it becomes necessary to remove a can by the herei'nbefore-described arrangement such removal can be readily effected without disturbing other cans of the series,occupying, for example, the position illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawlugs.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with abar-fixture having its front panel cut away, of a housing adapted to be inserted in the cut-away portion of said fixture, said housing having a throat projecting beyond the front of said fixture, a can adapted to be mounted in and to be withdrawn horizontally from said throat and housing, and a draw-off cock arranged at the front end of said can and projecting downwardly from the fioor of said can.

2. The combination with a bar-fixture having its front panel cut away, of a housing adapted to be inserted in the cut-away portion of said fixture, said housing having a throat projecting beyond the front of said fixture, a lid adapted to close the top of said throat, a can adapted to be mounted in said throat and housing and having an opening in the top located below the lid of said throat, said can adapted to be withdrawn horizontally from said throat and housing, and a draw-off cock arranged at the front end of said can and projecting downwardly from the floor of said can.

3. The combination with a bar-fixture having its front panel cut away, of a housing adapted to be inserted in the cut-away portion of said fixture, said housing having a throat projecting beyond the front of said fixture and the base of said throat being recessed or notched, a lid adapted to close the top of said threat, a can adapted to be mounted in and withdrawn horizontally from said throat and housing and having an openingin the top located below the lid of said throat and a draw-off cock projecting from said can and adapted to fit in the recessed or notched portion in the bottom of said throat.

4. The combination with a bar-fixture having a front panel, of a housing adapted to be inserted in said fixture, and aean adapted to be mounted in and to be horizontally withdrawn from said housing, said can having a draw-off cock arranged at the front portion of the can and projecting downwardly from the floor of said can. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN C. JOHNSON. 

